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Explaining Agricultural Instability

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Are You a Prisoner to your farm? The Stresses of Rural Life and Building a Farm

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The farmer elaborates on the volatile 'up and down world' of agriculture. He gives examples like market prices for livestock fluctuating wildly (e.g., a calf's value changing significantly). He describes the constant challenges posed by unpredictable weather (dry, hot, wet times), animal health issues, and maintaining pastures. He emphasizes that unlike many '9-to-5' jobs, farming requires daily commitment regardless of holidays or personal circumstances, leading to significant financial and personal stress that the general public often fails to comprehend.

Goal: Josh describes the unpredictable financial and environmental challenges inherent in farming, contrasting it with traditional employment and emphasizing the ceaseless demands that impact a farmer's mental well-being.

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might be worth 1,200 bucks you just don't know we have dry times we have hot times we have wet times we have health issues with our animals we have health issues with our grasses we have issues all the time that the general public pretty much doesn't really have to think about we are on our land we are on our property and a lot of times our property is far far away from what we would mainly consider civil Iz ation I find this to be interesting when I talk to my friends who have a regular 9 to5 or 7 to3 job where they go and they punch a clock and they do their job and they come home and then they have the freedom to go do stuff right now and you're probably watching this video after the fact but it's the 4th of July it's Independence Day weekend here on the Stony Ridge Farm and it doesn't matter that it's Independence Day weekend it doesn't matter that it's Christmas it doesn't matter that it's Thanksgiving it doesn't matter that it's or or any of that it doesn't matter guys farming is every day it don't matter if it's Sunday it don't matter if it's snowing and it's waste deep in snow or if it's raining and it's waste deep in mud we've got to get out here we've got to take care of our animals we got to take care of our land and it's the love of the land that drives us to do what we do and it often drives us apart from other people it drives us apart from our families it drives us apart from our marriages my marriage is destroyed my marriage is completely destroyed because of my farm it honestly is the stress of

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